NGD Studios interview

Few days ago one more NGD Studios Interview (report about previous one see here) has been published. As you all know, starting from yesterday new Bunch of Heroes first action game is available for buying, and all of us, Regnum Online users, might get an exclusive gift too, woo-hoo!

NGD Studios new logo

Short interesting facts from interview are below:

• About origin of NGD name: "NGD started as the fusion of three teams of game developers" and they "named with the placeholder name “Nuevo Grupo de Desarrollo” (New Development Group in English)", and "almost 6 months we fought to come up with a super-cool new name for the studio" and finally "in the end we settled for the [NGD] acronym".
• About development details of their new Bunch of Heroes game: "The development of the [Bunch of Heroes] game started two years ago when three of the most experienced developers at NGD, Gastón di Pasquo, Leonardo Benaducci and Javier Barreto, decided to do a shooter prototype to test a new engine Leo came up with on his spare time" - so, "core team was around 6 people, peaking at 12 people when finishing all of the game's content".
• About NGD plans: "Our next big thing might be a huge and original MMO that we are prototyping, but it’s a very ambitious project and we are still looking on how to fund it".

NGD Studios team

NGD and Regnum Online: past, present, and future

Few days ago an interesting NGD Studios’ Andrés Chilkowski on Bunch of Heroes, Regnum Online & Designing Game Engines interview with Andrés Chilkowski, one of the members of NGD’s management team, has been published. And, now we can clarify some historical details about both Regnum Online game and NGD Studios company, which created this wonderful game.

So, short story is next. They had started a game development in 2002 with only 20.000 dollars and with only 7 people, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and wanted to have beta version in 6 months, but in almost 5 years later they launched Regnum Online.

Right now NGD has 35 people working on various projects including Bunch of Heroes and Regnum Online games.

For Regnum Online game they are using own NG3D proprietary game engine, but have other game engines. Bunch of Heroes game was built using a new Perfection engine developed by Leonardo Benaducci. And, currently they "are halfway through the development of our third Engine code named Crush".

Approx 1,000,000 subscribers played NGD’s first major release of Regnum Online. On their hard development way they passed such early stages as "the servers would crash with more than 100 users online" and "2 years to make it work as a business -optimizing the premium items and monetization". So, current status is declared as: "game is just now reaching our original vision as we are continuously adding new features every month", and, it smells mature and sounds good! :-)

Among future NGD plans they "plan to continue working on it [i. e. Regnum Online] for another decade if we can", plus "have already started working on a prototype of our next big MMO", and ... now surprise: premier of their new Bunch of Heroes game for PC will be ... yep, just in 4 days, on September 21, 2011!

New Castle, Coming to Regnum Online Next Update

UPDATED (2011/09/22): also, see another interview here.

Hot first summer of clan

The first summer since the establishment of the clan was really hot: numerous forays into enemy territory, recruiting. grinding, wedding, graduations, invasions - see below.

Syrtis War Stalkers clan goes online

Syrtis War Stalkers clan created Google's Profile, Picasa, and YouTube public web repositories for further reporting about clan's life, etc. Please feel free to leave your comments, suggest ideas, publish your screenshots on Picasa, or videos on YouTube (with further posting on clan's site), communicate with each other, and finally have fun altogether playing in Regnum Online game!
UPDATED (2010/07/22): Syrtis War Stalkers clan is available on Twitter already as well now.

First war activities of clan

From the very beginning of its foundation Syrtis War Stalkers clan successfully launched war actions against its enemies. We started to do stalking and venturing into both Alsius and Ignis realms to bring out "artefacts", their gems, to Syrtis Gem Portal!

Syrtis War Stalkers clan was created

Congratulations! On the 10th July, 2010, Syrtis War Stalkers clan was born! We, first clan members, who took part in clan creation:

• Titanium Axle, 36th level (founder),
• Drug Cuki, 41th level,
• Grem Repier, 33th level,
• Cazadora, 33th level,
• Cassius Bloodstar, 23th level,
• syrtian hunter, 20th level,
• salad shooter, 19th level,
• Beta, 15th level,

are happy to start a new life in new clan, and to represent a new style of friendship, common grinding, studying and leveling up, fighting against enemies, and, having fun, etc altogether in Regnum Online MMO game.

Take a look how it has been happened below.